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Patent GB-2457057-A (GB)
Title: Sterilisation of food contained within a sealed receptacle
Inventor: SNOWBALL MALCOLM ROBERT
IPC: A23L3/28
Filed: 2008-01-31
Abstract: A method of sterilising food comprises providing a sealed package 11 containing the food F to be sterilised, irradiating the package with UV radiation from lamps 14,16 and allowing the UV radiation to at least partially permeate the package 11. The food package can be agitated whilst being irradiated. The UV radiation has the effect of killing micro-organisms on the food product F and in the air trapped within the package 11. In a preferred embodiment, the food package 11 is irradiated with UV radiation having a wavelength of less than 240nm, which creates ozone inside the package 11 that helps to kill micro-organisms and substantially increases the self life of the product. The article of packaging 11 preferably has at least one wall 13 formed of a material such as a fluoropolymer which is transparent to UV radiation having a wavelength of less than 240nm. A radiation apparatus for use in the method comprises a fan 29 for creating an airflow away from the lamp 25 and means 30 for treating the airflow to reduce the quantity of any harmful ozone in the surrounding atmosphere.
Patent GB-2457460-A (GB)
Title: Security cover for PIN keypads
IPC: G07F7/10
Filed: 2008-02-13
Abstract: A security cover 1 with a slanting top 2 to conceal PIN keypads. A facsimile PIN pad 3 is engraved, printed or pasted on the top of the cover to serve as a visual reminder of the original PIN pad 4 concealed under the cover while the opening 5 in the front of the cover enables cardholders to access the number and other keys of the original PIN pad 4, concealed under cover, to key in PIN numbers without anyone seeing the operation. Tongues 6 at the outer corners of the edges of the two sides of the cover fit into corresponding grooves made in the surface of the table where the PIN pad is housed to enable the security cover to sit neatly.
Patent GB-2462243-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic induction tomography with two reference signals
Inventor: WATSON STUART
IPC: A61B5/053
Filed: 2008-05-28
Abstract: A magnetic induction tomography (MIT) apparatus comprises an excitation signal generator 70; a primary excitation coil 50 arranged to convert the excitation signal into electromagnetic radiation and to emit said radiation to excite a sample having at least one of an electrical conductivity distribution, an electrical permittivity distribution or a magnetic permeability distribution; a primary receiver coil 60 arranged to receive electromagnetic radiation from the excited sample and to convert the received radiation into a detection signal; and a signal distribution network 115 arranged to receive the detection signal from the primary receiver coil 60. The apparatus further comprises a passive reference detector 200 arranged to detect the excitation signal and to convert the detected signal into a passive reference signal. The apparatus further comprises an active reference signal generator 230 for generating an active reference signal; and an active reference source 175 arranged to receive the active reference signal from the active reference signal generator 230 and to supply the active reference signal to the signal distribution network 115.
Patent GB-2461512-A (GB)
Title: Can Crusher
Inventor: CLARKSON MARK
IPC: B30B9/32
Filed: 2008-06-30
Abstract: Can crushing apparatus comprising: an elongate frame member (102), a first element (103) extending from the frame member at first location, a manually operable mechanism (104) extending from the frame member at a second location that is spaced apart from the first location and a second element (105) that is connected to the manually operable mechanism (104). The apparatus presents a can receiving portion (106) between the first element (103) and the second element (105), and the manually operable mechanism (104) comprises a trigger lever (107) and is configured, in response to a single operation of the trigger lever (107), to advance the second element (105) towards the first element (103) by a predetermined amount, to decrease the length of the can receiving portion (106), whereby a can received within the can receiving portion (106) is crushed between the first element (103) and the second element (105).
Patent GB-2462300-A (GB)
Title: Bending moment determination for a wheel fatigue test machine
Inventor: CRAGG STEPHEN RICHARD
IPC: G01M17/013
Filed: 2008-07-31
Abstract: A machine 10 for performing a wheel fatigue test includes a fixed structure 1 to which the wheel rim 6 is clamped, and a movable member 3 which is clamped to the disc 4 of the wheel 2. The other end of the movable member 3 is subject to a cyclically varying force generated by eccentric rotating weight 8, and transmits a cyclical bending moment to the wheel 2. Strain gauges 9a, 9b are attached to the movable member at two different positions between the wheel and the eccentric weight to determine an actual bending moment applied to the wheel 2.
Patent GB-2448847-A (GB)
Title: Lost-wax method associated with piezocrystallisation and a device for carrying out said method
Inventor: MUKHIN VIKTOR VASILIEVICH
IPC: B22D18/02
Filed: 2008-08-28
Abstract: The inventive casting method consists in pressing a melt from a metal receiver into the cavity of a shaped investment mould at a temperature which is greater than a liquidus line and a pressure which enables a maximum splash-free liquid metal flow and which is increasable along with the melt crystallisation to a pressure sufficient for filling the mould to a quantity of a casting shrinkage volume. The inventive device for carrying out said method comprises a metal receiver embodied in the form of a removable cylinder, which is coated inside thereof and provided with an annular flange, and a container which, comprises the shaped investment mould and whose hollow throat is provided with a removable fire-resistant sleeve. The flange is mounted in such a way that the internal diameter thereof mates with the external diameter of the sleeve, wherein the internal diameter of the flange is smaller than the internal diameter of the cylinder.
Patent GB-2464662-A (GB)
Title: Fixation device
Inventor: DEVENISH GREGORY F
IPC: A61M5/158
Filed: 2008-09-08
Abstract: An all-in-one dressing and fixation device 4, 6 for securing an I.V. device 42, 44, 46 to a patient's skin 40 comprising means 30 to seal about the needle 44 insertion point to provide a sterile dressing and means 8 to secure a portion of the tube 46 remote from the needle 44 to the patient 40. The tube 46 securing means 8 may secure the tube 46 in a looped back configuration when the device is folded. The device may further comprise a landing strip with an adhesive surface 26 for supporting and securing the inserted needle 44 above the skin 40. One part of the device 4 may be a cushion section and the other part 6 a cover section having securing means.
Patent GB-2449814-A (GB)
Title: Methods and apparatus for Heuristic/Deterministic Finite Automata
Inventor: JOYCE JAMES B
IPC: G06F15/16
Filed: 2007-02-15
Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is a method for processing data in a computer or computer communications network that includes the steps of analyzing data using at least a first Heuristic/Deterministic Finite Automata (H/DFA), to classify data based upon pre-programmed classification values assigned to different possible input data and/or pre-trained or dynamically updated heuristic engine output, and to select data for further processing based upon the resultant classification values that the logically interconnected look-up tables and/or heuristic components output given the input data. This exemplary embodiment overcomes disadvantages of previous methods for providing access control list, firewall, instrusion detection, intrusion prevention, spam filtration, anti-spyware, anti-phishing, anti-virus, anti-trojan, anti-worm, other computer security, routing, and/or switching related functionality. Heuristic algorithms, or a combination of logically interconnected look-up tables and heuristic techniques can also implement the H/DFA functionality. There are significant advantages in speed and scalability.
Patent GB-2463878-A (GB)
Title: Ionic catalyst capture of carbon oxides
Inventor: ANTIA DAVID DORAB JAMSHED
IPC: B01D53/62
Filed: 2008-09-25
Abstract: Ionic catalysts, such as sodium chloride, are used for the capture of carbon oxides, such as CO and CO2contained in a flowing feed gas. The feed gas contains one or more of CO and CO2and one or more of H2, CH4, CxHy, CxHyOz. The catalyst is not reduced in CO or H2prior to use. The feed gas can additionally contain sulphides, halides, ammonia, ionic substances, organic chemicals, nitrogen, water/steam, particulates, air, and oxygen. The catalysts operate at a gas hourly space velocity of less than 150,000 M3/hour per m3catalyst at a temperature of less than 650°C (923 K) and a pressure of less than 107Pa (100 bar). Also disclosed are 15 different embodiments which remove CO and CO2from a feed gas at temperature of between 16°C to greater than 35°C and at atmospheric pressure.
Patent GB-2464506-A (GB)
Title: Lead flashing bending and marking tool
Inventor: TRAIN SIMON
IPC: E04D15/00
Filed: 2008-10-17
Abstract: The invention relates to a tool for bending and marking out lead flashing. The tool comprises a groove of a predetermined depth so that when the lead is inserted into the groove and bent, it is the correct length for insertion into a brickwork channel. The tool may also be the correct length, depth and width to mark out the lead flashing. The lead bender is tapered at either end so that the tool may fit into the corners and bend the lead without disturbing previously bent material. The tool may also comprise a spirit level (2 figure 2).
Patent GB-2465774-A (GB)
Title: Controller for a brake system.
Inventor: LINDENSTRUTH MICHAEL
IPC: B60T8/172
Filed: 2008-11-28
Abstract: A digital control system for controlling a braking element 3 has a learning control device 14 for the suppression of periodic disturbances at the braking element 3. The learning device 14 may be a POISON (70, fig 3) or periodic on-line iterative signal optimum navigation controller, and performs inverting, correction, filtering and iterative learning of a reference signal to compensate for control errors which occur in a conventional closed loop control systems.
Patent GB-2454597-A (GB)
Title: Packet receiving buffer where packet sub-blocks are stored as linked list with sequence numbers and start/end flags to detect read out errors
Inventor: HELMS MARKUS
IPC: G06F11/10
Filed: 2008-12-01
Abstract: In the prior art a received packet is stored as a linked list in a buffer memory as blocks 26 at a series of addressed memory locations 24 with pointers 28 to the next memory location. If an error occurs during readout the blocks can be incorrectly chained together, which would not normally be detected until the packet was processed, and some memory locations can be erroneously overwritten. The invention also stores a status flag 30 indicating start/final/only blocks within packet as well as valid/invalid blocks. Each block is also assigned a packet sequence number 32 and a block sequence number 34. By checking these values when each block is read out errors in the linked list can be quickly detected and erroneous deletion of data avoided.
Patent GB-2465988-A (GB)
Title: Powder or tablet containing unsaturated fatty acid and water insoluble carbohydrate
Inventor: KLAVENES JO
IPC: A61K47/38
Filed: 2008-12-03
Abstract: A powder or granulate consists of at least unsaturated fatty acid or derivative thereof and at least one water insoluble carbohydrate. The composition may contain a surfactant. The fatty acid is preferably cod-liver or krill oil, and the carbohydrate is preferably microcrystalline cellulose. Also disclosed is a tablet containing such a composition, which may be used in the treatment of prophylaxis of cardiovascular, skin and bone disorders. A process for the preparation of the powder is disclosed. Further disclosures relate to a coated powder composition.
Patent GB-2466045-A (GB)
Title: Core for composite laminated article and manufacture thereof
Inventor: JONES DANIEL THOMAS
IPC: B32B3/28
Filed: 2008-12-09
Abstract: A core for a composite laminated article, the core comprising a sheet having a sandwich structure comprising a pair of outer foam bodies and a central structural insert therebetween, the structural insert including portions that are inclined to the plane of the sheet and to the through-thickness direction of the sheet. The structural insert may comprise a contoured sheet or interwoven fibres. The structural insert may be polypropylene and the foam polyphenylene oxide. Methods of forming such a core are also disclosed wherein a first foam body having a contoured surface is moulded. This body then has another material disposed onto it and a second foam body is moulded over that. A second invention is claimed wherein a core comprises a sheet including an open grid of a first foam material having cavities within it filled by a second foam material of a different density.
Patent GB-2466208-A (GB)
Title: Estimating the bandwidth of a channel based on observation of one way transmission delays in a packet based communications system
Inventor: ANDERSEN SOREN VANG
IPC: H04L47/265
Filed: 2008-12-11
Abstract: The method comprises: transmitting packets from a queue, each packet having a packet size based on data in the packet; determining a transmission time for each packet, based on a transmission clock; determining a reception time of each packet, based on a reception clock; supplying to an estimation function successive sets of observations including in each set transmission time, reception time and packet size, the estimate function being arranged to provide an estimate of bandwidth for the channel using the relationship between the bandwidth, the amount of data in the queue, packet size and the delay between transmitting successive packets from the queue; and using the estimated bandwidth to control transmission of packets. Aspects of the invention include estimating the uplink or downlink bandwidth of the channel. Thus, the bandwidth estimation is based on observation of one way transmission delays and it can effectively be determined if congestion problems are in one direction or another It may be applicable to one-to-one or multicasting scenarios.
Patent GB-2467524-A (GB)
Title: A convertible transportation apparatus for receiving a stretcher
Inventor: LYNCH RODERICK
IPC: A61G1/06
Filed: 2009-01-30
Abstract: A transportation apparatus comprises a medical stretcher (81, figure 7), one or more seats 80a, a forward section for seating a driver and a rear section convertible between a first configuration for transporting a patient on the stretcher and a second configuration for transporting seated passengers in said one or more seats. The rear section comprises one or more anchoring members 55a, on the floor plan 52, for detachably anchoring the stretcher and for detachably anchoring said one or more seats in the rear section. In the first configuration, the stretcher is detachably anchored in the rear section; the rear section is convertible from the first configuration to the second configuration by creating a space in the rear section, wherein creating said space comprises moving the stretcher and detachably anchoring one of said seats in its place. The transport apparatus may comprise a first longitudinal brace 90 and a second transverse brace 110 wherein the transverse brace is removably mounted to an anchoring member and the longitudinal brace is removably mounted to a second anchoring member 101.
Patent GB-2455451-A (GB)
Title: Active wireless tag and auxiliary device for use with monitoring center for tracking individuals or objects
Inventor: FREATHY STEPHEN
IPC: H04W4/029
Filed: 2007-08-29
Abstract: The invention is directed to a location tracking device and auxiliary device for use with a monitoring center for tracking individuals or objects. The location tracking device has position determining circuitry and first wireless circuitry that communicates position data representative of the location of the tracking device to a remote location (e.g., a monitoring station). The tracking device also has second wireless circuitry that communicates with the auxiliary device. The tracking device when communication is established between the has at least two operational modes. The tracking device switches operational modes tracking device and the auxiliary device. The auxiliary device generally has an associated auxiliary device ID and wireless circuitry that communicates the auxiliary device ID to the location tracking device. The tracking device has a first operational mode, when communication is not established with the auxiliary device, wherein the position determining circuitry is maintained in a normal power state. The tracking device can also have a second operational mode, when communication is established between the tracking device and the auxiliary device. In the second operational mode, the second wireless circuitry receives the auxiliary device ID from the auxiliary device and the first wireless circuitry communicates the auxiliary device ID to the remote location. The tracking device can also have a third operational mode, when communication is established between the tracking device and the auxiliary device. In the third operational mode, the position determining circuitry is placed in a reduced power state.
Patent GB-2469854-A (GB)
Title: Wind turbine rotor blade
Inventor: BEHRENS TIM
IPC: F03D7/02
Filed: 2009-04-30
Abstract: A wind turbine blade extending from a root to a tip and defining an airfoil between a leading and trailing edges has an effective camber in the chordwise direction. The blade comprises blade body, a first device 12 for modifying the aerodynamic surface or shape of the blade, the position and/or movement of the first device relative to the blade body being controlled by a first actuation mechanism and a second device 13 for modifying the effective camber of the airfoil cross section. The first device which may be a morphing or pivoting part operates to change the lift coefficient in response to perturbations that occur up to a first maximum frequency and the second device operates up to a second maximum frequency, the second frequency being higher than the first frequency. The first device may be moved by inflating pneumatic hoses or morphed by a thermoelectric or memory alloy actuator. The second device may be a trailing edge flap, microtabs, fluid jets or a plasma actuator.
Patent GB-2473821-A (GB)
Title: Exhaust gas recirculation system with multiple coolers
Inventor: DRANGEL HANS
IPC: F02B29/04
Filed: 2009-09-23
Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation cooling system 4 comprising a plurality of coolers comprising a first cooler 12 configured to cool the recirculated exhaust gas to a first temperature and a second cooler 13 configured to cool the recirculated exhaust gas to a second lower temperature, where there is a first bypass 14 to bypass the first cooler and a second bypass to bypass the second cooler 15. Preferably there is a first bypass valve 16 upstream of the first cooler configured to direct the recirculated exhaust gas into the first cooler or bypass and a second bypass valve 17 upstream or downstream of the second cooler but downstream of the first cooler configured to direct the recirculated exhaust gas into the second cooler or bypass. The first cooler may comprise a first coolant loop in flow communication with an engine coolant of an engine coolant loop and the second cooler may comprise a second coolant loop in flow communication with an auxiliary coolant of an auxiliary coolant loop. A U-shaped integrated cooler unit and a method of operation are also claimed.
Patent GB-2464839-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable floor air inlet duct for uniform cooling of server racks
Inventor: UHL KARL HEINZ
IPC: H05K7/20
Filed: 2009-11-10
Abstract: Air flow to a server rack (202) from floor vents 350 is controlled by air inlet duct 201 on a raised floor and by an air-intake side of the rack, where the conditioning the air flow is preferably provided at a specific temperature and humidity. The air inlet duct has adjustable separation sheets 251,252 to adjusting the air flow to provide a plurality of zones in the rack with a substantially uniform temperature, a pressure, and a humidity. The duct has a ground plate (260 fig 2) that is remove-able attached to the rack preventing the server rack from tilting. The duct is preferably installed in place of a conventional rack door and may be constructed to reduce the noise emanating using aluminium or iron.
Patent GB-591355-A (GB)
Title: Variable speed drives
IPC: F16H9/14
Filed: 1944-05-24
Abstract: 591,355. Variable - speed gearing. HEYER, D. May 24, 1944, No. 10007. [Class 80 (ii)] An adjustable pulley 11 on the shaft of a motor 10 drives a fixed pulley 12 by means of a vee-belt 63. The pulley 11 comprises twin conical members 35, 36, which are adapted to be moved together to increase the effective diameter of the pulley by centrifugal weights 39 which move radially on a cross-pin 37 secured to shaft 33 and engage through rollers 40 with cam surfaces 44 and 45 on pulley member 36 and a member 46, connected by keys 48 to slide axially with the other pulley member 35, respectively. The pulley members 35 and 36 thus move towards or away from each other by equal amounts to maintain the alignment of the belt. The effective pulley diameter is decreased when the speed falls by the tension of the belt under the weight of the motor which is pivoted at 16 and the tension of a spring 51 which forces the two halves of the pulley apart. The pulley thus assumes its smallest diameter when the motor stops so that the drive is most favourable for re-starting. A handwheel 27 and screw 24 are provided for adjusting a stop 18 engaging the base 13 of the motor for controlling the maximum effective diameter of the,pulley 11 and the speed of the driven pulley 12 as shown by an indicating disc 61.
Patent GB-752677-A (GB)
Title: An improved coffee-maker
IPC: A47J31/06
Filed: 1954-04-06
Abstract: 752,677. Coffee percolators. TERCE, P. J. J. April 6, 1954 [April 30, 1953], No. 10032/54. Class 129 [Also in Group XI] A coffee percolator consists of a tubular electrical heater rising from the base of the water container and surrounded by a perforated casing carrying the coffee filter, so that strong convection currents are set up within the casing and through the filter. In one embodiment, the heater 10 is mounted on an insulated pedestal secured to the base of the container 1 and is housed in a protective sheath 16. A cylindrical casing 4 having a perforated base, partly perforated walls and a removable perforated partition 8 defining a coffee filter portion, is inverted over the heater 10 and rests on supports 3 so that water can circulate through the cylinder and coffee filter. In a second embodiment, Fig. 2 (not shown), the cylindrical sheathed heater is surrounded by a perforated casing, in turn surrounded by a perforated coffee filter.
Patent GB-678709-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the production of multilayered blown hollow glass bodies
IPC: C03B9/193
Filed: 1951-04-30
Abstract: 678,709. Glassware, manufacture of. BRUNE. H. April 30, 1951, No. 10033/51. Drawings to Specification. Class 56. In the production of multi-layered blown hollow glass bodies, different batches forming the layers are run into a primary mould and are subjected to a preliminary pressure therein. The pressed form is then removed and subjected to a preliminary blowing and then placed in a finishing mould wherein it is subjected to a finish blowing.